Parts of Speech
The noun (person, place, or thing) in this sentence:
The cat walked over and laid down.
What is cat?
The correct placement of a comma in this sentence:
After the storm ended we went outside to survey the damage.
What is after the storm ended, we went outside to survey the damage.
The type of sentence that tells a statement (declarative).
What is a period?
The correct form of the verb in this sentence:
There's a reason that roses (has/have) thorns.
What is have?
The correct word to use in this sentence:
The screw is (lose/loose) in that shelf so it might fall.
What is loose?
The verb (action) in this sentence:
I have a brother and a sister at home.
What is have?
The correct comma placement for this sentence:
Surprisingly the concert was over by nine o'clock.
What is surprisingly, the concert was over by nine o'clock.
The type of sentence that gives a command (imperative).
What is an exclamation mark or a period?
The correct form of the verb in this sentence:
The murder hornet (is/was) disappointed when I ran inside.
What is was?
The correct word to use in this sentence:
Jessica is smarter (then/than) her younger brother, John.
What is than?
The adverb (describing a verb) in this sentence:
The mouse ran quickly to escape the cat chasing it.
What is quickly?
The correct comma placement for this sentence:
The couples who attended the Valentine's Day dance included Brett and Cheryl Matt and Robin and Lucas and Emily.
What is the couples who attended the Valentine's Day dance included Brett and Cheryl, Matt and Robin, and Lucas and Emily.
The type of sentence that asks a question (interrogative).
What is a quotation mark?
The correct form of the verb in this sentence:
He (concluded/concludes) that pigs must be able to fly when I talked to him yesterday.
What is concluded?
The correct word to use in this sentence:
The Chernobyl accident had devastating (effects/affects) on the environment.
What is effects?
The article in this sentence:
A cat is actually man's best friend, not dogs.
What is a?
The correct comma placement in this sentence:
The fire destroyed the garage. The house however was saved.
The fire destroyed the garage. The house, however, was saved.
The type of sentence that is a statement that shows emotion (exclamatory).
What is an exclamation mark?
The correct form of the verb in this sentence:
The author (analyze/analyzes) the text.
What is analyzes?
The correct word to use in this sentence:
I am (to/two/too) tired to deal with you today.
What is too?
The acronym we use to remember conjunctions (for, and, nor, but, or, yet, so).
What is fanboys?
The correct comma placement for this sentence:
Bananas and chocolate make the best breakfast muffins.
What is no comma needed?
Links closely related independent clauses.
What is a semicolon?
The correct form of the verb in this sentence:
The results (are/is) significant.
What is are?
The correct form of the word in this sentence:
She said that (their/they're/there) trying to catch the Loch Ness Monster!
What is they're?